Word: hardheadedness
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In California's courts and press last week three hardheaded, self-made midwesterners were locked in noisy battle for control of the largest building and loan company in the U. S.-the $50,000,000 Pacific States Savings & Loan Co. The three battlers: 1) California's Building & Loan...
Three years ago American Airlines financed the purchase of some Douglas DC-3s and DSTs largely by equipment trust certificates sold to RFC. But Pan American had to seek no such professional giver of largess. It sold $2,500,000 worth of 4% certificates, maturing semiannually from January 1940 to...
Few hardheaded psychiatrists or softhearted laymen realized that: 1) mercy killings now occur in the U. S. at the rate of one a week; 2) mercy killers are almost never convicted; 3) stiffest penalty imposed in recent years was three months in prison.* If a grand jury refuses to indict...
From Oregon to Pennsylvania, from Rhode Island's pipe-smoking scion William H. Vanderbilt to Minnesota's boyish Harold Stassen, keynote of the gubernatorial inaugurations popping over the land last week was the return of Republicanism-epitomized by Wisconsin's "hardheaded" Julius Peter Heil. But in one...
Hardheaded old Steelmaster Charles M. Schwab and his smoother, younger prototype, Eugene Grace, made labor history 20 years ago when they installed an "Employe Representation Plan" in Bethlehem Steel Corp. By the standards of the nonunion steel industry of 1918, E. R. P. was revolutionary. It assumed that workers had...